Viola - Cello -- Quiz Quilt 219 Solution
Robert Jen
[ Geography & Nature ]
> What is the 741,000-square-mile country of 235 million people whose
> currency is the rupiah?
INDONESIA -- The nation is the world's biggest archipelago.
[ Math & Science ]
> What Russian physiologist and psychologist documented his experiments
> in the book "Conditioned Reflexes" in 1926?
PAVLOV -- Nobel Prize winner Ivan Pavlov trained dogs to salivate at
the sound of a whistle in anticipation of being fed. He also used
several other objects, but bells were NOT among them.
[ History & Government ]
> Which U.S. Secretary of State's European Recovery Program helped
> Europe after World War II?
MARSHALL -- George C. Marshall's Marshall Plan provided $12 billion
in relief from 1948 to 1952.
[ Entertainment & Food ]
> In the 1950s, what was the fourth commercial television network,
> along with ABC, CBS, and NBC?
DUMONT -- The network, jointly owned by television manufacturer Allen
B. DuMont and Paramount Pictures, broadcast from 1946 until 1956.
[ Sports & Games ]
> What 128-bit game system did Sega release in 1998?
DREAMCAST -- The console was produced until 2001 when the company
exited the market.
[ Literature & Arts ]
> What author's 1955 novel "Lolita" did mainstream publishers initially
> reject as erotica?
NABOKOV -- The U.S. Customs Bureau initially confiscated copies of
Vladimir Nabokov's controversial book but eventually let them go.
QUIZ QUILT ANSWER: OCTAVE (Sixth letters going up)
The violas and cellos in an orchestra are tuned exactly one octave
apart.
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